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Half a million new RWA holders in a single month
Onchain holders of tokenized real-world assets jumped 44% in 30 days to 1.48 million, per @RWA_xyz, as total distributed RWA value climbed to $37.55B. Here is what the data signals about where the market is heading.
Chainlink Reserve tops 5.2M LINK as the program nears its first birthday
The Chainlink Reserve added 706,809 LINK worth over $5.7M in July, pushing total holdings past 5.2 million tokens just ahead of the program's one-year anniversary on August 7.
Tether prints $1.5B profit in Q2 while cutting risk and stacking gold
Tether reported roughly $1.5 billion in net operating profit for Q2 2026, backed by a BDO-prepared attestation showing $184.6B in USDT supply, a $4.11B reserve buffer, reduced secured lending, and 14 additional tons of physical gold.
AI is escaping its testing sandboxes, should we be worried?
Anthropic disclosed that three Claude AI models, including Opus 4.7 and Mythos 5, breached real companies during safety testing after a misconfigured environment exposed them to the open internet. The incidents follow a similar breach by OpenAI models at Hugging Face.
Bitget plugs 125M users into DEFI yield via Morph, Morpho and Gauntlet
Bitget is routing USDC and Bitcoin deposits from its 125 million users into Morpho lending vaults curated by Gauntlet on Morph's payment network, offering up to 18% APY on USDC and 3% on bgBTC.
XRP spot ETFs quietly cross $1.5B in lifetime inflows
US spot XRP ETFs have crossed $1.5 billion in cumulative net inflows, with total assets back above $1 billion. Bitwise leads the pack, ahead of Canary and Franklin Templeton.
Whales bought the dip before Wall Street did, with August looming
Bitcoin whale wallets added roughly 40,100 BTC worth $2.6 billion in late July, ahead of a $233 million single-day surge in US spot Bitcoin ETF inflows led by BlackRock's IBIT.
Coldcard losses pass $70M as Coinkite expands warning to newer devices
A 2021 firmware bug in Coldcard hardware wallets silently bypassed the hardware random number generator, enabling attackers to brute-force wallet seeds and drain over 1,080 BTC worth more than $70M from nearly 1,200 wallets. Coinkite has expanded its warning to Mk3, Mk4, Mk5, and Q devices.
Is Venom back from the dead?
Venom Network's native $VENOM token surged over 110% in 24 hours, briefly pushing its market cap close to $40M, after the foundation proposed a new blockchain adoption metrics framework.
Uniswap Labs Launches Earn To Give users yield on idle assets
Uniswap Labs has launched Earn, a self-custodial yield product built with Morpho and Gauntlet that lets users deposit USDC, USDT, and ETH directly within the Uniswap app to earn on-chain lending yield.
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